Blog Post 10

Session 10: General Education Teachers: When working with special education teachers, what are your challenges?  Strengths?  What could be done to increase your skills in this area?

I love my special education teachers and I am personally considering becoming one after I receive my certification. I like the way that what they suggest is usually just good teaching and I have wonderful paraprofessionals to come and help me out with my classes which are half special needs students during a couple of my class periods. The biggest challenge I have working with the special education teachers is having my materials provided to them in advance since I sometimes plan only a day at a time. I am going to begin trying to plan at least a week in advance and provide them with all of my materials ahead of time and letting them know when I am testing so the paraprofessionals can be ready to pull out small groups for testing. I think that my biggest strength when it comes to this area is that I take suggestions from the special education teachers to heart and try to implement their ideas in order to help my students grow.